Devil by any name is still the Devil

[Eric T. Schuetz]

Found this while googlings so making a list of names...Enjoy. Feel free to add a name with origination/definition.

The Devil is known by many different names, here we have listed most of the common ones by which he is known.

* Lucifer - (Lord Of Light)
* Asmodeus
* The Hooven Cloof
* Pocker
* The Prince of Darkness
* The Prince of Devils
* The Prince of This World
* The Prince of the Air
* His Satanic Majesty
* Satanel
* The Prince of Hell
* The Prince of Pandemonium
* The (Arch-) Fiend
* The Evil One
* Beelsebub
* Belial
* The Wicked One
* The Tempter
* The Author of Evil
* Mefistofeles
* The (Common) Enemy (of Mankind)
* Old Harry
* Old Nick
* The Angel of the Bottomless Pit
* Old Horney
* Old Gooseberry
* Satan
* Mr. Scratch


Ahriman: the Zoroastrian God of Darkness (also the Persian God of Chaos) created Azhidaahaka, the Dragon of Death.

Azazel: the Lord Of The Wasteland, taught man about war and war devices.

Belial: The Worthless, is a devil sometimes refered to as the Antichrist.

Beelzebub - The Lord Of Flies - was a Philistine god. Christianity has often used Beelzebub as an interchangeable name for Satan. He is also sometimes considered to be Satan's right-hand man.

Erlik: the Siberian God of the Underworld, was the first man but he was not given a soul.
Ghede: the Voodoo God of Death, occasionally turns the dead into zombies.

Hel: the Viking Goddess of Niflheim - an icy version of Hell - was sent to the underworld by Odin (the chief god of Viking mythology) to look after the dead, excepting those warriors who went to Valhalla. Christianity took Hel's name and adapted it to its own underworld.

Ictinike: the Sioux Indian Devil, was more a spirit who enjoyed playing pranks on people than a ruler of an evil underworld.

Kali: a Hindu goddess, is the evil half of the goddess Devi. Kali means Black Destroyer.

Kronos: the Greek ruler of Tartarus - a bottomless pit - ate all of his children at birth because he was told that one of them would one day overthrow him. Zeus, one of Kronos' children, escaped his siblings' fate and threw his father into the pit of Tartarus

Mara: a Hindu god, was the ruler of the underworld.

Moloch: a Canaanite god, was described as an old man with horns. He was also worshiped in Carthage, but with the name Baal-Hammon, which was then used by the Hebrews as their Satan.

Mot: the Caanite Lord of Death, caused the change of seasons when he would force the god Baal underground.

Pan: the Greek God of Nature, has over time become associated with evil. The image of Pan - who had a man's upper body but had horns and faun's legs - inspired the medieval Christian image of Satan.

Pluto: was the Greek god who ruled Hades

Rashnu: the Persian God of the Dead, judged if one went to Heaven or Hell

Satan: The well-known name of the Devil is just Satan...

Tiamat: the Babylonian dragon, fought with and lost to the god Marduk, who then created the universe from her dismembered body

Xipetotec: the Aztec God of Pain, enjoyed pain so much that he flayed himself alive. Aztec human sacrifices were usually made in his name.

[Eric T. Schuetz]

	See Pentagram
Aeshmã Daevã	Evil spirit of Iranian myth.
Abaddon	From Hebrew for "destruction."
Aldormanndiobla	Anglo-Saxon.
Angel of the bottomless pit	Biblical, Revelations 9:11
Angel of deepness	Biblical, Revelations 9:11
Apollyon	The destroyer. From the Greek "to lose." Chief demon of the abyss.
the Archfiend
Asmodeus	Evil spirit of Persian legend. Asmodeus was driven away from Tobit's fiancee (throughout Tobit, I'm not entirely sure of the chapter references, I'm afraid) by the stink of burning fish. He hung around her, y'see, and killed all her husbands. Cause he's an awkward old bugger, when y'get down to it. [HWS]
Beelzebub (Beelzebul)	Originally god of Ekron. From Hebrew for "fly-lord." (2 Kings, 1:2).  Modern use comes from the New Testament (Matthew 12:24) in the sense of prince of devils.  Revised Standard Edition, 2 Kings, i 2: Now Ahazi'ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Sama'ria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness."  Revised Standard Edition, Matthew xii 24: But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el'zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons." In Milton's Paradise Lost, Beelzebub is Lucifer's second-in-command who fights with him, falls with him, and bears the brunt of his angstful ranting throughout much of Book I. [HWS]
Belial	From the Hebrew words for "not" and "use."  Worthlessness or wickedness, often personified. Old testament, Deut 13:13
Old Bendy	The Devil, who will bend to anyone's inclination.
Beng	The Gypsy name for the devil. The Bengs often battle God, but are always defeated. They live in the woods where they conduct their evil businesses at night. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Berith	The alchemists' devil who would change all metals into gold.  Interestingly enough, this is also the Jewish ceremony of circumcision.
Black Donald	A name given to the devil in Scottish folklore.  One of the disguises he can take is an old man in a black suit.
Old Boy
Clootie  (Old Cloots)	Scottish. The name comes from cloot, meaning one division of a cleft hoot.  There is a piece of land, called Clootie's Croft, that is left untilled or found untillable as a gift to the Devil. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
the Cloven Hoof	A reference to depictions of the Devil's feet.
Demogorgon	Apparently Latin for "divinity/demon" + "terrible". Dates from 5th century.
the Deuce	Two, the lowest throw possible with a pair of dice.
Devel	Middle English.

[Eric T. Schuetz]

Devil	From the Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin word meaning for "slanderer" or "adversary, procecutor". Used as a translation for the Hebrew word satan.  Definitions:  The personal supreme spirit of evil and unrighteousness.  The tempter and spiritual enemy of mankind; the adversary of God.  Leader of all apostate angels and ruler of hell.  The personification of evil.
Diablo	Spanish.
Diabolus	Late Latin.
Diabolos	Greek, meaning, literally, "slanderer."
the Dickins
Eblis	From Arab "iblis," chief of the spirits expelled from Paradise.
Ebru Labadon	As in Revelations 9:11 Wyclifite Bible Translations, circa 1380.
the Fallen Angel
the Foul Fiend
Frau Welt	The name that was given to the female supernatural paramour or fairy mistress of general European folk belief by medieval clerics; and according to them, the Devil. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Old Gooseberry	A gooseberry can be a chaperon, possibly meaning an adult who pretends to pick gooseberries while keeping an eye on the younger people. But you'd think that this would keep youngsters out of trouble!
Hades	Originally used by Homer to name the god of the lower world. It was later changed to mean his kingdom.
Old Harry	Meaning "home ruler," or from the Anglo-Saxon "hergian" - to make war.
Ordog	A demonic creature from Hungarian mythology. It personifies the dark aspects of the world. Later it is identified with the devil. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Hiisi	A Finnish forest-god whose cult was especially spread throughout eastern Finland. In later times he was degraded to a wood spirit, and his name even became a synonym for "devil". (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Horny, Old Horny	A English and Scottish euphemism for the Devil, presumably because of his horns.
Lucifer	Morning star. Latin. Applied by mystical interpretation of Is. xiv. 12 to Satan.
Mephistopheles	The ironic demon of Goethe's Faust. Earlier forms: Mephostophiles (1597) and Mephostophilis (1590) probably because it's so hard to spell. Origin unknown.
Monarch of Hell
Old Ned
Old Nick	17th century. May be from the German "Nickel," meaning goblin. Also means copper-nickel, a deceptive ore.
Old One
Pentagram	The two up-pointed ends of the star represent Satan's horns.
Pluto	Greek god of the Underworld.
Prince of Darkness
Prince of Demons	Biblical. Revised Standard Edition, Matthew 12:24 says:  But when the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by Be-el'zebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons."
Prince of Devils	Biblical. KVJ, Matthew 12:24 says:  "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils."  (Devils refered to minor demons.)
Prince of Pain
Rodger	An old term for thief or devil (as in the pirate ship, the Jolly Rodger)
Satan	From Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, meaning "to plot against" or "the adversary."
Old Scratch	Altered form of earlier "Scrat." From the Old Norse "Skratte" for goblin.
Old Serpent
Son of the Morning	A reference to Lucifer, the morning star.
Supay	The evil spirits of the Quechua-speaking Incas of Peru. It was also the name of the God of Death and lord of the Incan underworld. Today the Catholic Indians of Peru and Bolivia apply the word to the Devil. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Velnias	Ancient Lithuanian term. (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Velns	Ancient Latvian term.

[Eric T. Schuetz]

I will be revising the lists above, and below, to create a webpage/Document to download as reference material.

[Jack Faust]

Mephistopholes is from CLM 849, the first listing I've ever found. It's a 15th century necromancer's handbook constructed by heretical Priests. (Probably the same group of underground nigro/necromancers that helped write the original Black Mass.) Some of it's rituals originate, according to scholars, as early as 1200 CE.

He occupies the same space as Lucifuge in the Grimoirium Verum, and is a 'sub-devil' that sits behind the text primary demon major Mirage.

CLM 849 can be found in Forbidden Rites by Richard Kieckhefer. We reproduced the Mirage working in Sutra III for anyone that wants to play with a 15th century devil.

[Drakein]

Old Serpent: "that primeval serpent" Revelation 20:2

[GRIMREAPER]

THE GREAT BEAST...DONT HAVE DEFINITION

[marcel locke]

One of the most ancient names for the Prince Of Darkness is of course Set.

[MTZ]

The Old Scratch (Washington Irving wrote it in "The Devil and Tom Walker"). That one has stuck with me a while.

[Darien Starr]

Then of course, resurrected by Exorcist fame, Pazuzu - from Babylon/Sumeria. Possibly the first idol of evil found in the civilized world. Interesting how his wings look man made and mechanical.

[Eric T. Schuetz]

FOlks, thank you for the interest and support on this topic. I thank you. Hopefully soon, I will get that new webpage made up. I will more than likely incorporate it directly into MySatan.net. I will get back to you all.